Improvement in bale-ties



J. L. HA'IGH.

Improvement in Bale-Ties.

Patented Aug. 6,1872.

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JOSEPH L. HAIGH, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

IMPROVEMENT IN BALE-TIES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 130,218, dated August 6, 1872.

Specification describing a new and useful Improvement in Bale- Band, invented by JOSEPH L. HAIGH, of New York city, in the county and State of New York.

The figure is a perspective view of my improved hay-band.

My invention has for its object to furnish a neat, simple, convenient, and reliable wire band for baling hay, straw, cotton, and other substances put up in bales; and it consists in the bale-band constructed as hereinafter more fully described.

A represents a wire band, upon one end of which is formed an eye, B, by turning the end of the wire back upon itself, and twisting said end and the body of the wire A together. The other end of the wire A is doubled back upon itself to form a hook, G, and the said end from the base of the hook (J and the body of the wire A are twisted together. The two plies of the wire A at the base of the hook C are spread apart, as shown in the figure, to form an eye, 'D, of sufficient size to allow the eye B to pass through it.

In using the band it is passed around the bale; the eye B is then passed through the eye D, and over the hook O, as shown in the figure.

By this means the strain or spring of the bale upon the band will tend to draw the hook 0 down toward the bale, so that, however great the strain may be, the hook 0 cannot be straightened out, as it is liable to be when the eye B is hooked upon the hook in the ordinary manner.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Pat- 

